Singapore bank POSB has launched online chat functionality that understands and reacts to its customers' spoken language. It is the latest bank to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to automate customer interactions with the POSB digibank Virtual Assistant, which is available via Facebook Messenger. Download our most popular articles for IT leaders to learn about skills of great CIOs, tech and digital strategy at the board-level, salary survey results, finding funding for digital initiatives and digital opportunities for CIOs. This email address is already registered. By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent.

Are your lunch choices dictated by your age and gender? KFC thinks they might be, so it's going to use facial recognition technology to categorize customers and pitch meal choices that its algorithm thinks will make you happy. The Chinese arm of the popular fried chicken chain is partnering with China's search giant Baidu to implement the technology in its restaurants. Unlike a typical fast food experience -- where you walk in, stare at the menu, pick something, then walk out -- KFC China's new technology relies on a computer to scan the customer's face and make its best guess at their age, gender, and any other facial cues that might help it guess what you'd enjoy. Then, each customer gets their own personalized meal recommendation, and they can choose to either go with what the computer thinks or simply pick something off of the menu like they normally do.

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When Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft in 1975, they set a goal to put "a computer on every desk in every home." Now some forty years later, a Chinese start-up is hoping to do the same with robot arms. "We really think [a robot arm] can make lives easier for people," says Tony Le, one of three co-founders of uFactory, a start-up in Southern China that builds desktop robot appendages dubbed the uArm. The very first model came out in 2014 after a very successful Kickstarter campaign -- raised US$250,000, more than 20 times their initial goal -- and led to a fun video showing the first-gen uArm making breakfast for a tech writer (while also making a huge mess). Le concedes that early model wasn't "that good" -- he and the company's co-founders built it for fun and didn't expect the Kickstarter campaign to blow up the way it did -- but they're back with two new models on Indiegogo.

Most of the previous approaches to lyrics-to-audio alignment used a pre-developed automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that innately suffered from several difficulties to adapt the speech model to individual singers. A significant aspect missing in previous works is the self-learnability of repetitive vowel patterns in the singing voice, where the vowel part used is more consistent than the consonant part. Based on this, our system first learns a discriminative subspace of vowel sequences, based on weighted symmetric non-negative matrix factorization (WS-NMF), by taking the self-similarity of a standard acoustic feature as an input. Then, we make use of canonical time warping (CTW), derived from a recent computer vision technique, to find an optimal spatiotemporal transformation between the text and the acoustic sequences. Experiments with Korean and English data sets showed that deploying this method after a pre-developed, unsupervised, singing source separation achieved more promising results than other state-of-the-art unsupervised approaches and an existing ASR-based system.

In 1994, Amazon set out to change the world. Its initial public offering three years later valued the company at just $461 million. Is it possible, though, that the company is just getting started? He believes the Seattle retailer is on the verge of explosive growth as it transforms its fast-growing Prime subscription service into the perfect, frictionless omni-channel retail experience. As investors realize the potential scale, Galloway posits Amazon shareholders will be rewarded with the first $1 trillion market valuation.

What would be your legal rights when coming up against a robot? Who would you sue if artificial intelligence denied you promotion, or even a job in the first place? What if your neighbour's future house-cleaning robot blew a fuse and crashed through your hedge or front window? A legal team from Otago University is going to try to find the answers to these questions. Robot'Nao' addresses the opening ceremony of the 2016 RoboCup China Open in Hefei, China.

Not so long ago, the consumer electronics show (CES) was the place to exhibit the latest in computers, mobile devices and other electronic gadgets. It still is although the accent is changing. Every year, this Las Vegas tech fest attracts a rising tide of automotive suppliers taking space both inside and outside the convention centre halls. This month's management briefing turns the spotlight on some of those exhibitors operating in the brave new auto world of voice control, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Among those unveiling autonomous driving concepts at CES included Chrysler, Toyota, Honda and Faraday Future.

There are plenty of articles out on the internet talking about how 2017 will be the year of AI and how it will change the way in which we drive our cars, organize our homes with the internet of things (IoT), and live our lives. But much of the progress made in developing AIs could never have been made had it not been for video games spurring developers on. Video game AIs have come a long way from when Nintendo sent Goombas marching at Mario in a set path and are certainly now capable of carrying out complex commands. But AI developers are now trying to create AIs that can actually think, learn and develop their own personalities as opposed to following a script with branching paths. This can not only affect how we interact and play video games, but help create better AI to change how we live our day to day lives. Of course, we have already managed to create AI which can learn.

Taking artificial intelligence a step further, a new Socially-Aware Robot Assistant (SARA) took the participants of the World Economic Forum (WEF) here by surprise by understanding their spoken words and non-verbal behaviour to build a relationship. Developed by students and professors of prestigious Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a research project, SARA became a key exhibit at the WEF annual meeting held in this ski resort town last week. CMU President Subra Suresh, who was here for the WEF, said the university would also take SARA to other parts of the world, which may include India, for exhibition and eventually, it may be licensed to some company or organisation for commercial use, but any decision on that will be taken by the persons concerned and professors at the university. "With technology advancing so fast, one of the opportunities for us is whether we can combine robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning etc to create tools that will have positive impact on society. This is how SARA has come out," Suresh told PTI in an interview here on the sidelines of the WEF meet.